diff --git a/docs/tickets.md b/docs/tickets.md
index 44ee957..87abfb6 100644
--- a/docs/tickets.md
+++ b/docs/tickets.md
@@ -817,3 +817,43 @@ building base and ≥8-10% luma in shaded receivers.
 `setSsgiEnabled(false)` on SW adapters banks the ~1.6 ms until this
 lands; needs a backend query FFI or the game reading the new boot log.
 
+---
+
+## EN-024 — iOS/iPadOS/tvOS report pixels as the logical size 🔴 needs decision
+
+**Why.** macOS passes points as logical and pixels as physical
+(`native/macos/src/lib.rs:361`, via `backingScaleFactor`). iOS/iPadOS
+and tvOS pass **pixels for both**: `bloom_attach_native` sets
+`logical_w = physical_w = width` (`native/ios/src/lib.rs:770-773`) and
+the orientation-change poll resizes with `resize(pw, ph, pw, ph)`
+(`native/ios/src/lib.rs:828`); tvOS mirrors it. Touch input is then
+scaled points→pixels to match (`native/tvos/src/lib.rs:267`), so the
+convention is at least self-consistent — a deliberate-looking choice,
+not an obvious slip.
+
+Two consequences, both real:
+
+1. **The physical-resolution glyph work is inert on iOS.** The shared
+   text renderer derives `dpi = surface_config.width / logical_width`
+   (`native/shared/src/text_renderer.rs:284-285`). With logical ==
+   physical that is always 1.0, so the "rasterize glyphs at physical
+   resolution" change (60ba704) does nothing on Apple mobile — glyphs
+   rasterize at 1× of a pixel-sized font instead of at the backing
+   scale. Text is not blurry (sizes are already in pixels) but the
+   crispness win never lands, and 3× devices get 3×-smaller text than
+   the same source produces on macOS.
+2. **Game-facing coordinates differ across Apple targets.** `screenWidth`
+   and 2D HUD coordinates are points on macOS and pixels on iOS, so the
+   same layout code does not carry across.
+
+**Decision needed (breaking either way).** Either (a) switch iOS/tvOS to
+the macOS convention — pass points as logical, pixels as physical, and
+stop pre-scaling touches — which fixes both consequences but changes
+game-facing coordinates and will break existing iOS games' layout; or
+(b) keep pixels and document the divergence explicitly, accepting that
+`text_renderer`'s dpi path is dead on Apple mobile. Deliberately not
+folded into the boot-path render-target fix (PR for EN-024's sibling
+bug), which was a straight bug — this one is a product call.
+
+**Found by** the macOS/iOS parity audit, 2026-07-11.
+
diff --git a/native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs b/native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs
index ada0a5c..e490c58 100644
--- a/native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs
+++ b/native/shared/src/renderer/mod.rs
@@ -6082,7 +6082,7 @@ impl Renderer {
             ..Default::default()
         });
 
-        Self {
+        let mut renderer = Self {
             headless_target: if surface.is_none() {
                 Some(device.create_texture(&wgpu::TextureDescriptor {
                     label: Some("headless_swapchain"),
@@ -6530,7 +6530,21 @@ impl Renderer {
             composite_ldr_rt_b: None,
             composite_ldr_rt_b_view: None,
             post_pass_depth_sampler,
-        }
+        };
+
+        // The targets above are sized to the full surface, but the pass
+        // chain runs at `render_extent()` (surface * render_scale, 0.5 by
+        // default) and `resize` is the only thing that reconciles the two.
+        // Run it once here rather than trusting the host to: every
+        // `attach_engine` platform (macOS/iOS/tvOS/Linux/Android) resizes
+        // only when the OS size *changes*, so it never fires on frame 1 —
+        // those hosts rendered against targets that ignored render_scale,
+        // dropping post-FX and failing the depth-snapshot copy outright
+        // with a scene-reading translucent material in view.
+        let (pw, ph) = (renderer.surface_config.width, renderer.surface_config.height);
+        let (lw, lh) = (renderer.logical_width, renderer.logical_height);
+        renderer.resize(pw, ph, lw, lh);
+        renderer
     }
 
     /// Q1: Set up a render target override. The next end_frame will render to
@@ -10732,6 +10746,15 @@ impl Renderer {
         self.surface_config.height
     }
 
+    /// Actual size of the render-resolution targets (depth / HDR /
+    /// G-buffer). Must always equal `render_extent()`: the pass chain
+    /// computes viewports and dispatches from the latter and writes into
+    /// the former. Pinned by `tests/render_targets.rs`.
+    pub fn render_target_extent(&self) -> (u32, u32) {
+        let s = self.depth_texture.size();
+        (s.width, s.height)
+    }
+
     pub fn surface_format(&self) -> wgpu::TextureFormat {
         self.surface_config.format
     }
diff --git a/native/shared/tests/render_targets.rs b/native/shared/tests/render_targets.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7348f37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/native/shared/tests/render_targets.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+//! Render-target sizing invariant.
+//!
+//! The pass chain computes viewports and compute dispatches from
+//! `render_extent()` (surface * render_scale) and writes into the
+//! depth/HDR/G-buffer targets. Those two must agree from the very first
+//! frame.
+//!
+//! The golden suite cannot cover this: its harness calls
+//! `set_taa_enabled(false)` immediately after construction, which
+//! internally resizes and so always repairs the invariant before
+//! anything renders. A real host does not — every `attach_engine`
+//! platform (macOS/iOS/tvOS/Linux/Android) boots and then only resizes
+//! when the OS-reported window size *changes*, which is false on frame
+//! 1. That left those platforms rendering against targets sized to the
+//! full surface while the passes ran at half extent: post-FX silently
+//! dropped out, and the depth-snapshot copy failed validation outright
+//! whenever a scene-reading translucent material was in view.
+
+use bloom_shared::renderer::Renderer;
+
+fn try_renderer() -> Option<Renderer> {
+    let instance = wgpu::Instance::new(wgpu::InstanceDescriptor {
+        backends: wgpu::Backends::all(),
+        ..wgpu::InstanceDescriptor::new_without_display_handle()
+    });
+    let adapter =
+        pollster::block_on(instance.request_adapter(&wgpu::RequestAdapterOptions::default()))
+            .ok()?;
+    if adapter.get_info().device_type == wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let (device, queue) = pollster::block_on(adapter.request_device(&wgpu::DeviceDescriptor {
+        required_limits: adapter.limits(),
+        ..Default::default()
+    }))
+    .ok()?;
+    Some(Renderer::new_headless(device, queue, 256, 256))
+}
+
+/// Straight out of the constructor — no resize, no TAA toggle, which is
+/// exactly what a freshly attached host looks like on frame 1.
+#[test]
+fn render_targets_match_render_extent_at_construction() {
+    let Some(r) = try_renderer() else {
+        eprintln!("no GPU adapter — skipping");
+        return;
+    };
+    assert_eq!(
+        r.render_target_extent(),
+        r.render_extent(),
+        "render targets disagree with render_extent straight out of the \
+         constructor — the boot path is not honouring render_scale"
+    );
+}
+
+/// The invariant must survive the scale/TAA setters and an explicit
+/// resize, not just hold at construction.
+#[test]
+fn render_targets_track_render_extent_through_changes() {
+    let Some(mut r) = try_renderer() else {
+        eprintln!("no GPU adapter — skipping");
+        return;
+    };
+
+    r.set_render_scale(1.0);
+    assert_eq!(r.render_target_extent(), r.render_extent(), "after set_render_scale(1.0)");
+
+    r.set_render_scale(0.5);
+    assert_eq!(r.render_target_extent(), r.render_extent(), "after set_render_scale(0.5)");
+
+    r.resize(640, 480, 640, 480);
+    assert_eq!(r.render_target_extent(), r.render_extent(), "after resize");
+
+    r.set_taa_enabled(false);
+    assert_eq!(r.render_target_extent(), r.render_extent(), "after set_taa_enabled(false)");
+}
diff --git a/native/windows/src/lib.rs b/native/windows/src/lib.rs
index 9c647ad..cfd6e52 100644
--- a/native/windows/src/lib.rs
+++ b/native/windows/src/lib.rs
@@ -675,15 +675,11 @@ unsafe fn init_engine_for_hwnd(
         };
         surface.configure(&device, &surface_config);
 
-        let mut renderer = Renderer::new(device, queue, surface, surface_config, logical_w, logical_h);
-        // Route initial target creation through the same resize path a
-        // WM_SIZE takes. Without this, windowed mode (which never gets a
-        // resize, unlike the borderless-fullscreen transition) keeps
-        // construction-time render targets that ignore render_scale —
-        // the depth-snapshot copy then spans a partial depth texture,
-        // which wgpu rejects (fatal validation error on the first frame
-        // with a scene-reading translucent material in view).
-        renderer.resize(phys_w, phys_h, logical_w, logical_h);
+        // `Renderer::new` routes initial target creation through `resize`
+        // itself, so the construction-time targets already honour
+        // render_scale — no explicit resize needed here (it used to live
+        // here, which left every non-Windows host with the bug).
+        let renderer = Renderer::new(device, queue, surface, surface_config, logical_w, logical_h);
         let _ = ENGINE.set(EngineState::new(renderer));
 }